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Nothing SqnaU Our Native Grassas
for Say.
A UKAVt IsbIK RAISER IS ALABAMA.
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Lti'iHT, a weekly newspaper published
in Mam bridge, Oa.. a* the medium foi
the publication of all leural advertise
ment* animating from the Sheriff'* office
during the year 1901. Jan. 10th. 1991.
A. W. FORDHAM. Sheriff.
Early county i» to have a new
court house.
Wonder how Mr. McKinley «wili
feel when he gets hack home and re
alized that he has missed Bainbridge?
Judging by the present indica
tions, South Carolina politics will be
hotter than the weather next Au
gust.
Running a newspaper without
money is like running a wagon willi
n' t grease—a mighty grinding pro
cess.
The supreme court settles the
question, the Constitution follows
the flag nyd the court follows the
administration.
Oil lias boon struck in Tennessee
and Louisiana recently, and lands in
those states arc advancing with enor
mous rapidity. Fabulous prices are
being paid for lands that have hith
erto been considered valueless. Who
knows hut that Georgia’s nudevelop
ed acres of oil fields may not yet lie
discovered and the scene of excited
activity he shifted to Imr confines.
And now the hullaballoo is over.
The President and iiis party have
returned to Washington ami the
country may lake an easy breath.
Just what, Mr. McKinley lias learned
from lii.s journey, or just what the
country lias gained therefrom re
mains to lie seen. The evident de
sign of the trip was to effect a rec
cmciliatioti of the public mind to the
policies or the administration. If
Atiey have succeeded in this, certainly
they have won a yictory, but do not
believe that the ovations given
Hiuount to anything materially be
yond a recognition of thp executive
head of the government in a manner
befitting Ins exalted estate. Thu
people will certainly remember that
the way into every trap is strewn
with bright promises and tempting
allurements, llanna and his crowd
may spread their nets tor the dear
people but they may not then rope
Perhaps the most absorbing polit
ical fight that South Carolina has ever
witnessed is now on between Sena
tors Tillman and McLanrm of that
state. Articles of agreement have
been signed by each of these gentle-
men whereby they vacate their seats
m the United Slates senate and en
ter a contest for re-election, opposing
each other. J..st what may be the
outcome of the affair will lie watched
with interest by Democrats through
out the country. For some time
Mr. MuLaurin’s democracy lias been
brought into question by Mr. Till
man and others who openly charge
him with collusion with the Repub
licans. At tlie same time Mr. Till-
We find the following in “Capitol
Gossip” of the Atlanta Constitution:
“Assistant Commissioner Wright,
of the agricultural department, lias
been bombarded with inquiries from
many sections of the state within the
last two or three days about wheat
hay. It seems that the wheat in
many sections of the state is nearly
ready to be cut if it is to be cut, if it
is to be sold as hay, and many of the
farmers want to know where they
can find a market for it. Captain
Wright has seen several Atlanta
firms who handle grain and hay, and
they have agreed to take hold of it
and do what they can with it. He
is answering all the inquiries with
regard to the matter that came to
the department, and for a time it
kept him busy.”
Here we find evidence of the fact
that we have farmers in Georgia
who are blindly running over a good
tiling that is a dead certainty as a
profitable crop and money maker, in
a vain effort to reach an uncertain
“something better.”
Wheat hay mav be very good and
there may be profit in it where the
crowfoot and crab grasses which we
have throughout Southern and Mid-
die Georgia are not of indigenous
growth, but why plant wheat, millet
or anything else for hay where we
have native grasses that require no
seeding and that, when given a
chance, make the very best of hay.
The Herald knows something
about hay. It didn’t learn wiiat it
knows about hay in a sin
gle year or for nothing,
either. In 1895 this paper inaugur
ated a haymaking campaign in South
west Georgia and paid some round
cash premiums, at the pioneer hay
day carnival held in Albany, to the
farmers making the best exhibits of
hay from native grasses on a given
number of acres. The farmers who
were induced to contest for the Her
ald premiums that year demonstra
ted that hay from native grasses
was one of the most profitable crops
that could be produced in this
country.
Experiments that have been made
in Dougherty and adjoining counties
show that an average of two tons of
good merchantable bay per acre can
lie made in a fair season when three
cuttings of the grass can be had, and
when it is considered that the ciop
is one that lias ,to lie neither seeded
nor worked, the profit becomes ap
parent. There is no other crop that
can be produced in this country at so
small a cost, and yet the yield pet-
acre can bu converted in to more
money tlian can be realized from the
same laud planted iu corn, wheat or
cotton.
At the hay day carnival and street
fair held in Albany last November
hay from our native grasses was ex
hibited that was pronounced bv
competent judges to be of as good
q mlity as the Northern and Eastern
product known as Timothy. Since
our farmers, or some of our farmers
we will say, have gone to making
hay from our native grasses, they
have improved the quality of the
product each year, and there is ready
market for every bale produced.
Last year’s crop sold for from $12 to
$15 per ton, and those who Imd
good hay and kept u until spring
got more for it.
Taking the cost, yield per acre
and market price all into considera-
In accepting the presidency of the
Alabama eonstitional convention,
Colonel John B. Knox presented an
issue that the convention will do well
to consider with great care and that
should engage the attention of the
whole South, especially those states
where constitutional reforms rela
ting to the suffrage have been adop
ted or are to be agitated.
As remarked by another in refer
ring to Celonel Knox’s address, he
makes it clear that he is “strongly
opposed to any constitutional pro
vision that will place a stimulus to
secure an education behind an igno
rant colored boy when no such stim
ulus exists to promote the education
of the white boy.” "It has been
urged.” says he, “ns a reason why
this movement fora new constitution
should be defeated that we propose
to adopt a suffrage plank which will
offer to the negro an incentive to ob
tain an education, while the child of
the white man will be without a like
stimulus, because protected in his
right to vote without regard to the
density of his ignorance. I do not
understand that any delegate to this
convention is pledged to any such
legislation.”
This idea raises a serious question.
The negro is enamored of tiie posses
sion of political rights and will strive
diligently to overcome the education
al qualification m the way of his ex
ercise of the right of suffrage. On
the other hand, there is great illiter
acy in certain portions of the South
among the whiles, and unless special
incentives are placed before tins
class to acquire an education the
negroes five years hence may show a
higher percentage of educational
progress than the whites, especially
in proportion to their population.
The purpose to place political con
trol in tlie hands of the intelligent
people of a State is a laudable one.
B it to accomplish tins object there
ought to be no discrimination. Ig
norance is ignorance wherever found,
and it can Mof-k its evil effects upon
government whether it is the heri
tage of tlie whites or the blacks. It
is a poor policy to teach the white
boy that he can grow up in dense
ignorance and yet have bis voice in
public affairs. lie should understand
from the first that intelligence is re
quired to discharge properly his du
ties to society. The educational qual
ification for tlie ballot is one of the
best means of enforcing this lesson.
—Houston (Tex.) Post.
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. , , , i t»on, there 18 no hay crop that can
man has a hard battle to fight him- , , , . .
,, , . , , ® be produced in this coin try to equal
self, and it is not beyoud the possi- ....
,, . . ,* , the native grasses. When properly
Me that the people may give the , ,
„ . . , 1 | handled these grasses make a hay
office he is seeking to Governor'., . • ,
, that is as pretty, as sweet and essen
McSweeny — 1
politician.
caul fact by Mr. Tillman’s enemies
that his name was stricken from 30,.
000 tickets cast at his last election
when he had no opposition. No day ^ban v HeraltL
lias yet been fixed for the contest, , ,
but in all likelihood it will occur Dressed and dried boards at
sometime during the summer. j Son’s, near depot.
the
1 seeking to Governor
oi some other aspiring (i a [[y flg valuable as the best Timo-
1 '* U 8i «' li,i ' i thv, and there is more clear profit in
; making this kind of hay in South
west Georgia limn there is in most
iof the crops grown in this section—
Reid
Important Points Covered by U. E
Supreme Court Decision,
The Constitution of the United
States applies wherever tlie authority
of the United States is exercised.
No authority can be exercised any
where unless a warrant for that au
thority is found in the Constitution.
But every part of tlie Constitution
of the United States is not neeessari
ly applicable to every part of tlie
territory over which the United
States has jurisdiction. There are
parts of the Constitution' applicable
to Territories which are not applica
ble after the Territoties have become
Slates.
But every part of the Constitution
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rectly and not merely by implication
Porto Rico and the Pinllippines
seized under tlie war power, must re
mam on the footing of war possess
ions until Congress, the only power
which mn incorporate territory, eith
er withdraws our sovereignty from
them or admits them as states or ter
ntories.
The Constitution must apply to all
parts of tlie United States. No offi
cer or agent uan exercise any power
out-ide of it or beyond it.
Porto Rico is stiil a war possess
ion; therefore the tariff levied on
merchandise shipped into or out of
that island is legal.
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